2007/8/13, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam at gentoo.org>:
> The ebuilds do this for example to satisfy some security by using a sandbox
> for compiling and installing programs. make install then uses some temporary
> image directory.
> After that the content gets merged to the live system. (Also preserving
> configuration files in that process, ...)
Ah okay, now its clear to me, thank you.
Regargs,
Joachim.